The Searching for Sugar Man juggernaut rolls on as Malik Bendjelloul’s sleeper hit about the unlikely resurrection of singer-songwriter Rodriguez copped the jury prize for Best International Documentary at the 10th Beefeater In-Edit music documentary festival in Barcelona.

The awards were presented Saturday on the penultimate night of In-Edit, which drew around-the-block queues for dozens of new and vintage music films for 10 nights in the Catalan capital’s university district. It’s the eighth festival to honor Sugar Man since its Audience Award-winning breakout at Sundance in January. Released theatrically in July by Sony Pictures Classics, the film has also done $2.2 million in box office as of late October – pretty serious numbers for a music documentary, especially one about an obscure bard whose two early ’70s albums sank without a trace in his US homeland but became massive hits in South Africa. (For a bit of context, that’s $800,000 than Marley has taken in.)

The In-Edit jury (consisting of noted music doc maker Matt O’Casey; film writers Xavi Serra and Ricardo Aldarondo; Ingrid Guardiola, a professor of television and documentary at universities in Barcelona and Girona; and MFW chief content wrangler Andy Markowitz) chose Sugar Man from a field of 10 films. The panel praised Bendjelloul for unearthing a remarkable story and for the “exceptional, thriller-style way in which it is told,” using mystery and suspense techniques to reveal Rodriguez’s tale and his impact on faraway fans in a “moving and dynamic way.” We can’t tell you much about Bendjelloul’s immediate reaction, as the ever-surprising Swedish director gave his acceptance speech before a packed Barcelona cinema largely in Spanish. (There was a Cannes anecdote in there somewhere.)

Over drinks later a smiling Bendjelloul did tell us, in English, that In-Edit’s weighty trophy, an inscribed, black-lacquered bass-drum pedal, is the first actual physical prize he’s received for his debut feature doc (although Sugar Man is widely tipped to be in the running for another piece of hardware in a few months). There was more good news for the film Friday as it picked up five nominations in the doc-only Cinema Eye Honors, including the best picture-equivalent, Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Filmmaking.

The In-Edit jury also bestowed a Special Mention on William Miller’s Don’t Follow Me (I’m Lost) for its skilled use of cinema verite in constructing a warts-and-all portrait of iconoclastic rocker Bobby Bare Jr. and his up-and-down life on the road. The national award for top Spain-made music documentary, selected by the three home-grown jurors, was taken by A Film About Kids and Music: Sant Andreu Jazz Band, directed by Ramon Tort, which won kudos for capturing creative passions and intimate moments at a Barcelona neighborhood music school.

Update: Following the ballot-counting on November 5, Searching for Sugar Man was determined to have won the In-Edit audience award as well.